Verizon Broadband is offering the FIOS Triple Play with FIOS Prime HD TV, 15/5 Mbps Internet, and FIOS Digital Voice Phone for $85/month for 12 months. Includes a wireless router.
FIOS TV + Internet w/ $100 GC for $80 / mo.
Phone + Internet w/ Wireless Router for $35 / mo.
Verizon Internet + TV + Phone Triple Play for $65 / mo.
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I have stayed away from FIOS because I have TV "drops" in 11 places in my house and don't want to drag "boxes" around to the drop I want to use.
Then a few weeks a FIOS sales person came to the door and said they no longer "did it that way" but she couldn't explain "how it was done".
I did an online "Chat" session with FIOS and they didn't know what she was talking about.
So, is there a way I can "feed" 11 drops around my house with TV? I would be using only 2 or 3 at any time.
Thanks In Advance.
#1, if you're in a metropolitan area, consider just using an antenna. Most all the content on TV is commercial riddled crap anyway. You can download a lot of shows from the Internet. For the most part, I just watch the broadcast sports. You'll save a ton of money.
Verizon employs "upselling" selling you more content and hardware. You'll end up paying a lot more than their advertised rates after the Robin Hood taxes and fees and the teaser rate ends.
#1 you will need TVs with a cablecard slot and cablecards in each TV unless they (have) switch(ed) to unencrypted QAM, but they probably do have a few channels, all the local broadcast ones available as QAM that any digital TV/etc can tune without a box.
According to the following document they charge $5/month for each SD set top box, $10 for an HD box, $13 and $20 for two different DVRs. What is very alarming is there seems to be a $25 charge to add, upgrade, or downgrade a set top box, and a $240 to $550 charge for an unreturned or damaged set top box.
http://www22.verizon.com/NROneRetail/NR/rdonlyres/09769D3D-93F6-41CB-A214-6090DCD67BE3/0/FiOSTVRateSheet_010307.pdf
I don't know what it costs to build their DVR boxes but $240 for the SD box is outrageous, if sold at retail it would cost around one tenth that. I don't even see how they can fairly impose this charge because given enough time the set top box WILL fail whether it be capacitors in the box itself, a power surge frying ICs, or the power supply for it.
Perhaps this info is inaccurate, the document is from 2007.
Well, I'm an oddball. I have no use for TV except CNBC, news and Jeopardy. That is it.
I consider "sports" to be the reason China is beating our a$$.
My wife "needs" the other stuff.
#3, I was aware of some of the information you found. When they were at my door and I said I have 11 TV drops and didn't want to lug their box around she said, "That is no longer required", but she couldn't explain.
Now, just today I got a letter from Time Warner saying CNBC, CTV Toronto (news I watch), C-SPAN and some others will be digital only after October 17, 2012. They will "lone" me a Digital Adapter until November 2013 then it will be $0.99/mo. I have been on hold for over 20 minutes to get my "free loners".
When do I give up on TV altogether?
TVs are good to watch commercials. Stay tuned..